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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (24 June 1532 [note 1] – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years. [1] [2]
The Queen kept Dudley close, giving him Kenilworth Castle in 1563 and the title of Earl of Leicester in 1564. Elizabeth visited him at the castle multiple times, once staying for 19 days during a ...
Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was a British manufacturer deeply involved with the Modern design movement in and immediately after the interwar years. He took over Best & Lloyd, his father's light industrial engineering works in Birmingham, having previously trained as a metal designer at art school in Düsseldorf .
Amy, Lady Dudley (née Robsart; 7 June 1532 – 8 September 1560) was the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious.
Sir Robert Dudley (7 August 1574 – 6 September 1649) was an English explorer and cartographer. In 1594, he led an expedition to the West Indies , of which he wrote an account. The illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester , he inherited the bulk of the Earl's estate in accordance with his father's will, including Kenilworth ...
Elizabeth is held under house arrest following Thomas Seymour's capture, and is interrogated by John Dudley. Dudley and his sons are then sent by the Lord Protector to put down a peasant rebellion in Norfolk. While doing so, the Dudleys stay with the Robsart family and Robert Dudley takes a liking to the family's daughter Amy. Council members ...
The book opens in the autumn of 1558, just after the death of Mary I of England, and bells are heralding the fact that Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth, is now queen.The book is told from four main perspectives: Elizabeth I's; William Cecil's, the queen's main advisor; Robert Dudley, the queen's favourite; and Amy Robsart's, who is Robert Dudley's wife.
This hypothesis was originally proposed by Robert Dudley of the University of California at Berkeley, and was the subject of a symposium at the 2004 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. His book The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol was published in 2014 by the University of California Press ...